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Forum: Near Misses and Crashes Topic: Almost became a road-rage statistic |
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:52
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| Thanks for the useful pointers - all good points and help with help with learning from this experience. I must admit, normally I'm pretty good with holding a hand to the mirror as a "sorry/thank you". I guess I just felt a little more "in control" by being infront, rather than ha... |
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Forum: Near Misses and Crashes Topic: Almost became a road-rage statistic |
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 18:37
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| His view: You were in the "wrong" lane and should have given way. Your view: There are a lot of "Merge in Turn" signs so what you did is OK. Yep, that seems a fair summary. Until people understand that the (still unusual) practice of Merge in Turn does not demean their manhood t... |
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Forum: Near Misses and Crashes Topic: Almost became a road-rage statistic |
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 16:43
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| Apologies for the length of this post. Last night I came within inches (literally) of being another statistic of road rage - I'd be interested in any pointers on what other people think I may have done wrong, or not have helped... In "X marks the spot" style, I've driven the Avon Ring Road... |
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Forum: Paul Smith, RIP Topic: Condolences |
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 16:37
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Just heard this news, and I'm stunned. Road safety has lost a true campaigner.
My thoughts are with Claire, his family and friends. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: North Wales Police at it again.. (two articles in one post) |
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Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:26
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| Two articles here, that were forwarded to me by a friend in mid-Wales the last couple of days... Apologies for what will likely become broken links! Both Fixed - S Link 1 I was hysterical... they took my keys Jun 25 2007 by Rona Wasiuk, Daily Post A PREGNANT student nurse was left stranded at the ro... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Second opinion - blind bend |
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 23:08
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| johnsher - thinking about it, the view is a little more open than my original post may have suggested, but the satellite maps on Google are a little deceptive. As I was initially overtaking, I'd say (and this analysis is starting to cloud my recollection slightly) I had 3 or 4 car lengths' worth of ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Second opinion - blind bend |
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 16:39
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| Hi, Came across a tricky situation on my way home yesterday afternoon, and I'd be interested how other people will have dealt with it... The location, marked by the spot.... http://tinyurl.com/2kwwj9 . Driving along the B4058 from Frampton Cotterell to Iron Acton. This is a single carriageway 50mph ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: members occupations |
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Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:48
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| GSM Network Management Engineer. I sit in front of a bank of monitors dealing with live faults on one of the big-4 mobile networks. That's the simple version, anyway |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Driving in the fog |
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:40
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| No real fog there tonight... But driving round town I saw a police car coming at me with front fogs... Maybe I was just being a pain in the arse, but I called the station up and mentioned this to them... Sadly I didn't get any details of the car as (funnily enough) I was blinded by his fog lights..... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: Daily Express, 23rd January 2007 |
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:51
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| Likewise I'd argue that a short (and I mean SHORT) conversation on hand-held is no more dangerous than fiddling with the stereo or heaters... The only danger with that is, define short. With one hand clamped to your ear, you only have one hand to share between the steering wheel and gearstick. Say ... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: Daily Express, 23rd January 2007 |
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:47
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| I'm also a little bit uncomfortable with some of the wording I've seen so far. At the outset, I'm totally in favour of banning hand-held phones while driving. Only yesterday I noticed someone dialling out while waiting at the give-way line of a major roundabout - looking straight down at his lap. BU... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Current IAM website Poll |
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Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 20:07
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| Launched on 27 April a Midlands Safety Camera Partnerships Drivers' Attitude Survey shows that drivers with penalty points for speeding are far more likely to have a crash than those with a clean licence Do you believe that drivers with penalty points on their licence from speed camera violations a... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Council realise that too slow can be dangerous as well |
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Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 14:35
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| I've forwarded a link to this thread to a friend of mine in mid-Wales, he's sent me this in response: If you'd like to post a reply on my behalf, please do. Basically, the other reason this story appeared in the SS is because of a fatal RTA at Middletown, about 200yds east of the end of the 50 and t... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Merging in: "Queuejumping" or progress? |
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 18:30
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| Queue. Period. No way. The whole point of driving is to get somewhere, and if the road is free, use it to get closer to where you want to be. If people want to sit there and stew in their own juices, that’s their own lookout. I like to poodle down to the front, nice and slow like, and then nip in n... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Merging in: "Queuejumping" or progress? |
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Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 17:38
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| This is something that came up on my IAM observed run earlier, and it provoked a bit of a (polite of course) debate between myself and my observer. He knows I'm posting this (we discussed the reasoning both sides in our debrief), it's to get a consensus of opinion from the "regulars" (and resident T... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: IAM What is involved and how much does it cost. |
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 22:49
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| The approach taken by different local groups does vary somewhat, but typically you would get a couple of classroom sessions and six to eight 90-minute observed runs to prepare you for the test. Some groups allocate each associate a specific Observer, others rotate them. It is well worth doing, but ... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: Public meeting, Bristol, 28th June 2005 |
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 17:26
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| The upstream went via cellular 3g network from my laptop. The 'datacard' lost connection and indicated 'no network'. It's NEVER done that before or since when there's been good signal strength. I'm tempted to suspect that it was a cellular network problem and nothing to do with my equipment. Though... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: Public meeting, Bristol, 28th June 2005 |
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 22:55
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| I came to this meeting, and was most impressed. Apart from the idiot sat next to me who was clearly intent on disagreeing with Paul right from the start. Every opportunity he could, he muttered some negative comment or insult under his breath just loud enough for everyone in earshot to hear. I whisp... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: Radio 5, 7th February 2005 |
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 14:04
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Mod wrote: LinkagePaul comes in at about 1 hour 9 minutes.
Does anyone have this as an audio file?
I started listening to it, after 1 hour 30 mins my PC crashed completely, now it's over a week since the program was aired, it's been replaced.... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Road Humps |
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Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 17:34
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| North Bristol, Yate by any chance? Take a look at http://www.humps.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk where a valiant fellow is trying to get humps removed. Onother salt-of-the-earth fellow is battling against the imposition of humps in Warmley (not far away) The S. Glos. council want to rip up a perfectly effec... |
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